[forge-dev] Migrating Forge to the EPL license- how we can all help

[Richard Fontana]

Hi,

Just a note on that license notice:

There's nothing inherently wrong with that - it's the Apache License
2.0 standard notice recommended by the ASF but with the EPL
substituted as the license. 

However, I recently recommended to a developer of a new EPL-licensed
JBoss-related project to use a simpler notice:


  Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates.

  Licensed under the Eclipse Public License version 1.0, available at
  http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html


That would be my recommendation here, just because we don't have any
true standard and simpler legal notices seem preferable. 

(Substitute another copyright holder if appropriate, but for Red
Hat-copyrighted source files use "Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates"
as above.) 

I dis-recommended the notice commonly used by Eclipse Foundation
projects, for any of you who've seen those, because I find them
annoying and they are not quite a 'standard'.

- Richard





On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:17:32PM -0400, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Thanks for "volunteering" to help with the EPL license effort.
> 
> The first thing we should do to get started migrating the Forge license is each
> choose module(s) that we'd like to help migrate. Simply reply here with the
> forge/core module you are taking on, and we will try not to overlap.
> 
> Once you've chosen your module(s), we'll need to take the following steps.
> 
>  1. In all of the source file, check the /** License */ header to ensure that
>     the (c) Copyright is owned by JBoss.
> 
>       □ If it is, replace the header with the following License:
> 
>         /**
>          * Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
>          *
>          * Licensed under the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 (the
>         "License");
>          * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
>          * You may obtain a copy of the License at
>          *
>          *     http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
>          *
>          * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
>          * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
>          * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
>         implied.
>          * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
>          * limitations under the License.
>          */
> 
>       □ If it is not, then record the name of the file and at the end of your
>         review, send a list of all such files discovered as a reply to this
>         thread so that we can review the necessary actions to take (most likely
>         no action will be required, and we will simply leave the header in
>         tact.)
> 
>  2. Send your changes as a pull request for review.
> 
>  3. Another committer will review your pull request and merge the changes. Note
>     - please DO NOT merge your own pull requests. We should have at least two
>     sets of eyes reviewing each license change. We don't want to get this
>     wrong!
> 
>  4. Drink beer.
> 
> Thanks folks! Let the re-licensing begin!
> 
> --
> Lincoln Baxter, III
> http://ocpsoft.org
> "Simpler is better."